Call for Students:
Google Summer of Code 2008
Sugree Phatanapherom
sugree@gmail.com
http://sugree.com/

What is it?
 A program to promote open source
development in universities
 Run by Google since 2005

Participants
 Organizations
 Mentors
 Students

Benefits
 Students
 500 USD after accepted
 2000 USD after mid-term
 2000 USD after final evaluation
 T-shirt
 Organizations – 500 USD after final evaluation
 Mentors - T-shirts

Example Organizations
 Django  Joomla!
 Drupal  Moodle
 Eclipse  OLPC
 Gallery  Pidgin
 GNOME  SquirrelMail
 Google  Ubuntu
 GnuCash  Wordpress

Tentative Timeline
 March – Submit applications
 April – Announce accepted students and
projects
 May – Receive 500 USD
 July – Mid-term evaluation and receive 2000
USD
 August – Final evaluation and receive
2000+500 USD

Summer of Code 2008
 Prepare now!
 Propose your amazing proposal
 Give some preliminary works
 Demonstration says it all

Drupal Ideas
 User dashboard
 Wordpress style
 Joomla style
 Blogger style
 Twitter clone
 Powerful forum
 Multisite manager
 Ban/block/track IP/user